Pilot's Log

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Dr. Scribbles is working on a device to move the planets of the Solar system to new orbits. To prove it, he'll set Mercury so its new orbit perpetually eclipses the Institute and puts all those fools "where the sun don't shine".

(Wrote this in a forum last year. Not specifically my idea, but just exploring it.)

Some people in their signatures say that they don't want to play God, just borrow his SMITE button.

Forget that, I want to borrow his PULL FIRMAMENT FROM VOID button.

How about this:

1) Boost Venus from its current orbit (3/4 AU) up to Earth's belt level...maybe a good distance ahead or behind Terra/Luna in the same track. For an encore I'd boost Mercury up as well and make that Venus' moon.

2) Take Mars (along with both Deimos and Phobos) and drop them into the Terran orbit track as well.

3) Loot the bigger moons from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and slip them into comfortable orbits, also along the Terran orbit track.

Between the dozen or so planetary and satellite bodies given, we could expand the elbow room for Homo Sapiens and Company at least three or four times, maybe more, depending on how many moons get looted from the Gas Giants. Of course, the Solar Systemic juggling act would take levels of energy far beyond anything possible with current technology. But if you're going to get the power of a God, it is surely better to rearrange than to burn. :)

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And I want to mention two things: 1)Twenty years ago this month, I started my first terms at college. 2)A few years ago, I predicted that the world as we knew it would end this month. Earth would be turned into a burnt-out desert world so that eleven others would support Terrestrial life. Of course, this prediction has a possibility rating of less than 1%.

FP